Introducing Find It, Fix It, Fund It

In the wake of the Flint lead water crisis and increased national will to address the problem, NCHH and the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition have launched a bold new drive to eliminate lead poisoning. It’s simple yet comprehensive: Find lead hazards, eliminate them, and build the political will to create key public investments and policies to do so.

NCHH and the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition are leading initiatives to eliminate lead paint hazards and dramatically increase lead poisoning surveillance and home-based follow-up services and will support allies and partners in eliminating lead hazards in water and other sources.

Materials

Over 50 recommendations for Congress and the Administration, written by Find It, Fix It, Fund It members and released in February 2017.

Get Involved

Find It, Fix It, Fund It National Roundtable

Co-chaired by David Jacobs (NCHH)

The National Roundtable develops policy goals, carries out administrative and legislative advocacy, and serves as an organizing force for Find It, Fix It, Fund It actions. The National Roundtable has open membership and meets on the first Wednesday of every month. Join here.

The National Roundtable meets on an ad-hoc basis.

For more information on the National Roundtable or Find It, Fix It, Fund It, please contact Sarah Goodwin.

Guiding Principles for NCHH’s Lead Advocacy

The National Center for Healthy Housing’s core principle for lead advocacy is to promote primary prevention, leading to the elimination of exposures and thus the elimination of childhood lead poisoning. Until we achieve that goal, we will also continue to press for urgently needed follow-up services for children impacted by lead.

Preventing exposure to lead-based paint, dust, and soil hazards requires robust support of all three legs of the stool for successful government action: the CDC to monitor children’s blood lead levels, HUD to control lead hazards, and EPA to set standards based on the most updated science.

Dramatically increase funding to HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes to ensure that lead hazards are identified and controlled in pre-1978 low-income homes with children younger than six years old.

Promote financing for home-based lead follow-up services.

Expand lead-based risk assessments to all HUD inspection protocols.

Re-establish a national lead poisoning advisory committee and update national plans for eliminating lead paint hazards and providing healthy homes.

NCHH plays a major role in efforts to:

Update federal lead paint, dust, and soil regulations using the most recent science.

Promote lead poisoning research.

NCHH supports efforts to:

Identify and replace lead pipes and identify and eliminate other sources of lead exposure.

Identify and fully fund needed follow-up services to children impacted by lead.

Also in February 2016, issued the call to more than double funding for children’s blood lead level surveillance in order to extend it to all 50 states – since picked up by over 100 members of Congress.

Provided technical and scientific advice to members of Congress on six lead poisoning prevention bills introduced in 2016 alone.

Recognized by Senator Jack Reed in April 2016 for efforts leading to introduction of his Title X Amendments Act improving protections of low-income children, including those living in studio and efficiency apartments. These provisions were included in bipartisan appropriations legislation passed unanimously out of committee on April 21.